A documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky will debut at the Berlin Film Festival amid international condemnation of the second guilty verdict against the former oil tycoon.
Cyril Tuschi's Khodorkovsky - an "odyssey" of Russia's most significant prisoner - is getting its world premiere at the Berlinale on February 14, Khodorkovsky's press service said on Wednesday.
The Russian-born German director says the film includes an exclusive interview with the oligarch, once seen as a potential threat to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, then president.
Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner Platon Lebedev, 54, were sentenced to 14 years years in jail after being found guilty of stealing from their former oil firm Yukos and laundering the proceeds in a politically tinged trial last month.
The two men had been nearing the end of their eight-year sentences for fraud and tax evasion from their 2005 trial and will remain behind bars for another six years.
The United States and European countries have lashed out at the verdict, voicing serious concerns of politicization.
The trial was viewed as a political vendetta by Putin, whom Khodorkovsky challenged by funding the liberal opposition in the early 2000s.
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev have always maintained that charges against them are false.
MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti)
